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January 16, 2020

How to lock the Dock on macOS

I’ve occasionally needed to fix certain aspects of the Dock on some people’s computers – one particular case comes to mind was an elderly client who somehow would remove the Mail icon from the Dock, and then be unable to send or receive emails.

Over at the iDownload Blog there’s an article with some very handy defaults write snippets that can lock parts of the Dock, without having to lock the entire thing.